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The Monty Hall Problem shows that switching doors triples your chances of winning.

This famous probability puzzle demonstrates how counterintuitive probability can be. Switching doors gives a 2/3 chance of winning, while staying gives 1/3. Many people, including mathematicians, initially refused to believe this solution.

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Every positive integer can be represented as the sum of at most three triangular numbers.

Proved by Gauss in 1796, this theorem shows how complex numbers can be built from simple geometric patterns....

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The sum of the angles in a triangle is always 180 degrees, but only on a flat surface.

On curved surfaces like a sphere, triangles can have angle sums greater than 180 degrees. This demonstrates how...

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The largest known prime number has over 24 million digits.

Discovered in December 2018, this Mersenne prime is 2^82,589,933 - 1. If printed in standard font size, it...

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